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Israeli envoy protests Kyoto guest house over policy of asking guests to declare they have never committed war crimes.

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith will learn whether he has been successful in his bid to clear his name after he was accused of being a war criminal.

Detainees were regularly executed and unarmed people killed in their sleep during night raids, according to ex-soldiers.

Former personnel describe soldiers exhibiting ‘psychopathic traits’ and executions of handcuffed prisoners

Scottish musician Doug Veitch has released a new single condemning Israel’s war crimes in Gaza

Israel is "sending soldiers to commit war crimes in Gaza", a former army chief has said

Gretchen Shirm was a legal intern in the Hague, the UN’s International Court of Justice, which is the setting for her new novel, Out of The Woods. While Shirm interned in 2006, her novel is set earlier, in 2000. It fictionalises the real trial of Radislav Krstić, relating to a…

Keir Starmer has been warned he may be the prime minister “to see Britain answer at The Hague” for being “complicit in war crimes” in Gaza

Lawyers say evidence file outlines atrocities including torture and rape carried out by the Rapid Support Forces in the country’s brutal civil conflict

The high-profile British human rights lawyer sat on the expert legal panel that advised the International Criminal Court on evidence from the Gaza conflict

A Syrian Islamist rebel ex-spokesman went on trial in France on Tuesday, accused of complicity in war crimes during Syria's civil conflict. It is the first time such crimes have been tried in France under the principle of universal jurisdiction.